22—Lancaster farming, SaWctayv 1~, 1973 • •
Mrs. Donnell
They Enjoy Meeting, Entering Exhibitors at the Lampeter Fair
Familiar faces this year at the
49th annual West Lampeter
Community Fair September 26,
27 and 28 will be those of the
corresponding secretary, Mrs.
John J. (Dorothy) Donnelly and
Mrs. Leßoy K. (Edith) Andrews,
who together with Mrs. Isaac
Herr, is co-chairlady of the Fair
Restaurant.
Mrs. Donnelly has been a
director on the fair board for 10 or
11 years and for the past three
years has been the corresponding
secretary, on the executive, the
advertising and the booklet
committees
When exhibitors enter the fair
grounds the first people they
encounter are Mrs. Donnelly and
Mrs. Robert H. Weaver, the
recording secretary, who give
entry numbers to them. Last year
they had over 800 exhibitors, an
increase of over 100 from the year
before. The increase was due in
part to advertising, no limitations
on who can exhibits, and in the
Homemaking Department
because more people are sewing
and there are more young people
in 4-H work. With more people
canning this year there should be
more exhibitors in that depart
ment. Exhibits may be entered
Tuesday night, September 25,
from 7 to 10 p.m. and from 7:30
a.m. till Noon Wednesday.
The department committees
get their own Judges but Mrs.
Donnelly follows up with a letter
and a fair book near Fair time.
The secretaries set up the
department books and see that
each department gets them and
the ribbons during the fair. The
fair office is divided into three
sections. The treasurer is in the
back, the secretaries in the
middle and the telephone and
information center in the front.
Edith Andrews particularly likes this Royal Doulton girl
and (left) the wine cut glass compote with clear stem and
knob, also the cranberry colored cut glass bowls she bought
in Florida. Mantel clock and cut glass water set came from
Leßoy’s home. Cup and saucers and sideboard came from
her home.
and Mrs. Andrews....
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During the fair the secretaries
put in 16 or 18 hours a day. They
tabulate the exhibitors prizes
and, with the aid of some extra
help, have the premium checks
made out and hand them out
before the end of the fair. Last
year the premiums amounted to
$6,794.75.
After the fair Mrs. Donnelly
sends acknowledgments to
bands, the fire company and to
people who donated to the Fair. It
is also her duty to send fair board
meeting notices to the officers
and directors and she takes care
of correspondence for their
chicken barbecue.
Mrs. Donnelly, in being a fair
director, is following in the
footsteps of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Isaac Herr of Lampeter,
who have been directors over 40
years. The fair association meets
four times a year and the
executive committee meets two
times a year. The directors get
the commercial ads and canvass
the community for patrons in the
fair catalog. Each director is
given a territory.
The advertising committee sets
up territories, does the paper
work and sees that there are no
errors before the ads are turned
in. The booklet committee sets up
and checks on the book.
This Fair draws large crowds
of people, including many
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A familiar sight is (left) Mrs. Leßoy
Andrews cooking at the fair and (right)
Mrs. John J. Donnelly,
corresponding secretary of
West Lampeter Community
Fair, has the department
books all in readiness for
1973 entries.
tourists. This means feeding
them, an important item which is
many times overlooked in the
overall picture of the Fair. We
hear lots about the program, the
fine exhibits, what’s new in the
commercial tents and farm
machinery but how many realize
the hours of tiresome labor in
volved in preparing the food
Mrs. Leßoy Andrews and Mrs.
Isaac Herr have been co
chairladies of the fair restaurant
ever since it started 17 years ago.
Mrs Herr, who is cafeteria
manager of Lampeter
Elementary School, orders all the
food. Mrs. Andrews goes ahead m
the preparation of the food for hot
platters as well as organizes the
dozen or so workers who freeze 75
dozen ears of corn, make four
bushels of apples into ap
plesauce, dress and cook 500
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pounds of capons.
The meals are served cafeteria
style, lunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
and supper 5 to 7 p.m. The menus
will be the same as in the past
unless meat shortages
necessitate some changes. They
serve for lunch chicken corn soup
Wednesday; chicken pot pie
Thursday; and beef stew, but
tered noodles, also chicken salad
or tuna salad Friday. They serve
for supper roast chicken, filling,
gravy, mashed potatoes and com
on Wednesday; roast beef, gravy,
mashed potatoes and peas
Thursday; baked ham, parsley
potatoes, baked beans, salmon
loaf Friday. They serve with all
the meals cole slaw, apple sauce,
buns, butter, coffee, pie, ice
Dorothy Donnelly made her tan suit with leopard trim and
knitted this man’s wool sweater which is lined, also the
multi-colored afghan. She will enter the sweater and afghan
at Lampeter Fair.
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Mrs. Donnelly with her fair catalogs.
cream and sell hamburgers.
They use 50 to 75 pies a day. Mrs.
Andrews makes the pot pie using
25 pounds of flour. She makes the
pot pie dough at home and dries
the pot pie. It takes her three or
four days to make it.
The Dairy Bar sells milk
shakes, ice cream and taffy
apples. Lampeter-Strasburg
High School provides several
kinds of food. FHA and American
Field Service Club sell french
fries, Garden Spot FFA sells soft
drinks and chocolate milk and the
Limelight Business staff sells hot
dogs.
The program committee,
George W. Myers chairman, has
arranged a well-rounded
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